WEEK 9
My analysis:
In this week, I have substantial interests to develop more about the poem ‘Fast talking Pi’ created by Selina Marsh.
Fast talking PI is one poetry contains with poet’s community, ancestry, influences, and history.
This is the first poem I know that in the first singular and it is musical as well as confident. I must say I was shocked when I first listened to Selina’s poetry on YouTube. It was awe-inspiring that the way Selina engaged with the sound and the beat of the poetry. It is different when I read the textual version of the Fast talking PI, but I do know how to read her poetry in her way as like how to demonstrate the pronunciation, pause, and the beat. Selina’s Fast talking PI does sound like a rap with all the patterns in rap mode, but it was smooth and encouraging unlike most of the rap is aggressive.
Fast talking PI is powerful to convey Selina’s identities and abilities, her use of descriptive vocabulary is sensuously strong, imagery, catchy and rhyming. There are too many examples of rhyming and catchy words such as “I’m a fast talkin’ PI” and “I’m a power walkin’ PI” as well as “I’m a fa’alavelave loving’ giving’ living’ PI” etc. On the other hand, it is brilliant how Selina addressed the readers. For example, ‘I’m a royal PI, I’m a commoner PI, I’m a coup-supported, you and you and you, deported PI.' This is to interact with the readers or audience to make them feel related, needed and welcomed. She also mentioned, “I’m a vegan PI, a rainbow warrior PI, I’m a protest sign against the rising waters PI.” This is another way to address the readers who are vegan, LGBT individuals or for LGBT and people who against rising waters. Faster talking PI also tends to break the stereotype of Pacific Islander and tells the PI can be capable of multiple positions. It also supports different identities such as rainbow warrior stands for LGBT community as I mentioned.
Reading and listening to Fast talking PI encourage me to feel powerful and to be proud of my own identities. I also discovered how much power and talents that female can be engaged. I’m proud of Selina, and I think she speaks up what Pacific Islanders are unconfident and afraid of, everyone should be proud of themselves and their identities. Also, Pacific Islanders are much powerful than what you think.
Original text:
My creative response:
Creative writing AC
I’m a creative writing AC
I’m a wordy talking AC
I’m a goody math science learning AC
I’m a depend AC
I’m a tomorrow independent AC
I’m a BA still learning AC
I’m a non-stop learning AC
I’m a meat lover AC
A vege lover AC
I’m a non-smoking AC
A non-drags AC
A non-alcoholic AC
I’m a warrior against violence AC
I’m a loving AC
I’m a friendly AC
I’m a non-weird AC
I’m a no eating haslets AC
I’m a saving pets AC
I’m a saving plants AC
I’m a hater against hypocrites AC
I’m a fashion AC
I’m a designing AC
I’m a working, selling, making money AC
I’m a cooking, baking, saving money AC
I’m a poetic AC
I’m a dramatic AC
I’m a dancing, acting, long hair AC
I’m a yellow AC
I’m a white AC
I’m a cross culture AC
I’m a half bi, half gay AC
I’m a rainbow admirer AC
I’m a long term writing AC
I’m a long term reading AC
I’m a long term speaking AC
I’m a trying creative writer AC
I’m a worrier AC
I’m an impatient AC
I’m an aggressive AC
I’m an ingenious, slow thinking, tongue-shy talking AC
I’m a long thinking creative writing AC
I’m a last minute creative writing AC
I’m a creative writing AC
Reflection:
In this week, I have written one short poem based on Selina Marsh's Fast Talking PI. PI stands for Pacific Islander. I wrote mine as Creative Writing AC, AC stands for Asian Chinese. I found Fast Talking PI powerful, and it sounds like rap. I only cited one page of Fast Talking PI, because it’s a long poem consisted of 5 pages. (If you haven’t heard or read her Fast Talking PI before, I recommend you to do so. Just google Fast Talking PI). It is incredibly catchy and compelling to address her Pacific Islander’s identity. Her poetry inspires me to write my own, especially when I wrote it, I felt nothing stressed, It is more like a fun writing. My creative response it is more about myself and my Chinese identity. Some think Chinese are good at math or science; some think Chinese don’t have a sense of fashion, some even think Chinese are wealthy and squander their money. My poetry is straightforward, but it does break down the stereotypes of Chinese.